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And not only did they all agree on the desirability of better US-European coordinations, they also presented a long list of what could, and should, be done: lifting remaining trade impediments, perhaps even creating a "Transatlantic Free-Trade Area"; agreeing on rules to facilitate mutual investment; reducing the danger of major monetary crises through closer consulation; addressing jointly major ecological issues.
In 2000, lifting a person out of poverty in China cost the central government approximately $48 per year (in nominal terms).
The initiative should also encourage free movement of goods and people within the region, by lifting the customs restrictions and complicated procedures that hinder bilateral and multilateral trade.
Instead, Israel should acknowledge Hamas’s right to govern, which means opening the borders (including the Rafah crossing to Egypt), lifting the siege, and allowing free movement of goods and people.
Troubled by the president’s apparent soft spot for (or perhaps fear of) Vladimir Putin, overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both chambers passed a bill to impose more sanctions on Russia and – most unusually – to prevent the president from lifting any such penalties.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for his part, has proposed lifting the immunity that past prime ministers enjoyed in connection with the sale of peerages.
Japan’s bold monetary easing, for example, was a critical element of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s strategy for lifting the Japanese economy out of more than a decade of recession – and it has led to a remarkable recovery.
It would also entail lifting the blockade and opening Gaza to the world.
Lifting the veil on the bloodbath is long overdue, but those with a past to hide seem bound to resist this.
If a rising tide is lifting all boats, the thinking goes, it doesn’t matter that some may be rising more slowly than others.
And while those causes include political pressures – particularly the devastating civil wars in Syria and Iraq – the refugee flows also reflect the inability of the Middle East to produce the income growth that is lifting Asia, Latin America, and large parts of Sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty.
The Bush administration is fiercely opposed to lifting the embargo, pointing out that in the event of a military clash over Taiwan, US troops would face weapons provided to China by America’s own allies.
The MDGs, which expire in 2015, signaled a new era of global cooperation, and triggered real progress in terms of lifting millions of people out of extreme poverty, improving health and access to education, and empowering women.
It includes developing the services sector, funding the social safety net, liberalizing an antiquated residential-permit system (hukou), reforming state-owned enterprises, and ending financial repression on households by lifting artificially low interest rates on savings.
Instead of exporting radicalism, Saudi Arabia must start importing Yemeni manpower by lifting its ban on Yemeni workers.
Lifting a country out of poverty and placing it on a path of sustainable growth requires hard work, the creation of a robust system of property rights, and – crucially – private investment.
Lifting the state of emergency that has been in force since 1963 – giving sweeping powers to the regime and its security services – would be both a symbolic and tangible step in the right direction.
These changes, while important, would have a limited impact, lifting labor’s contribution to future growth from one-fifth to only one-third of post-war levels.
China’s reforms will either support the economic shift, boosting sentiment and lifting growth forecasts, or they will fall short and disappoint, with attention most likely to be focused on the size and nature of state intervention in markets.
Since then, it has powered its explosive economic growth almost exclusively with highly polluting coal, lifting 680 million people out of poverty.
Those who defend Stalin’s reputation credit him with lifting millions out of poverty; but millions could have been lifted out of poverty without murdering and incarcerating millions more.
The trouble is that Macron has too few arrows in his quiver when it comes to lifting French economic growth.
So, like it or not, central banks became and still are the only game in town when it comes to supporting aggregate demand, lifting employment, and preventing deflation.
Lifting this limit would permit the existing framework to be used in the future to alleviate some countries’ fiscal burdens.
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, trade grew twice as fast as GDP, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty.
Supporters of lifting the arms export ban argue that this litany of sins does not reflect China’s real improvements in human rights and penalizes European armaments jobs to the benefit of Russia, which enjoys a lively arms trade with its neighbor (something it might one day regret).
For France, lifting the embargo is also an important symbol, one that recognizes China’s role in fighting Islamist terrorism.
This is why the European Parliament voted across party and national lines in November against lifting the ban until the EU Code of Conduct is made binding.
Government concessions to religious sentiment included the promulgation of Islamic family law in 1989, the establishment of the Indonesian Muslim Intellectual Association in 1990, lifting the ban on schoolgirls’ wearing the jilbab (head cover) in 1991, the founding of an Islamic bank (Bank Muamalat) in 1992, and abolition of the state lottery.
Having achieved the latter, it can declare at least half a victory and gradually start lifting rates.
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